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Radar Under the Hood

Radar is a project that I really like. Radar is a PSR-7 compliant Action-Domain-Responder (ADR) system. While it may look like a micro-framework, it is more like a wrapper around the real core of your application domain. Have your eyes glossed over yet? Don't worry. Radar is...

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FutureProof Your Code

Frameworks, libraries, and components are great. They can greatly simplify the process of writing applications. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. However what happens when the landscape changes? Your favorite library is no longer supported. The framework you've built your...

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Getting started with Radar

I recently needed a quick tool to track and generate invoices for my small random freelance jobs. I thought this would be a good project to try out Radar, a PSR-7 compliant Action-Domain-Responder (ADR) system created by Paul M. Jones. I like Radar and I'd like to document some...

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Facebook Comments

Dave Winer uses Facebook comments on his Liveblog and today I wanted to comment on his post about liveblogging. However before I did this I had to check something out. I went on Facebook and found where he had posted a link to his post and was surprised to find one comment on...

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Identifying my priorities

Lately I've been overwhelmed. This is not unusual for me ever since my heart surgery I've been more aware of it. I've been reading books lately about goal setting, life planning and task management so today I felt I needed to do a brain dump and figure out what are all my...

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What is a social network?

Dave Winer says in What's missing in our social networks?: Meanwhile, as we all settle in on these networks, we're also settling -- missing features that would have been developed long ago if we were using open and competitive platforms. At some point the dam will break and...

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Building a better Meetup

This post is a request into the aether for something I'd really like to see and would be willing to pay for. My hope is that someone reads this and decides to build it (maybe even Meetup). I unfortunately don't have the time to build this as much as I'd like to do...

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The future of PHP (and JavaScript)

As a developer, I'm always reevaluating what tools I use to do my work. This can be what language I'm using, but also what frameworks, libraries or editors I'm using. I've been doing pretty much nothing but PHP for close to a decade and I love it. I know it's cool to dis PHP...

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Improving My Code

I'll be honest with you. I had kinda stagnated over the last couple years when it came to improving my skills as a developer. When I first started developing professionally I went from not knowing much PHP to being well regarded as a developer in a few years. Part of my...

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